Wadleigh Quotes

#1. I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she had to give in just a few years. Now you listen to covers of her songs by various women, and it's pale in comparison.

Michael Wadleigh

#2. Spitz and Michael Wadleigh's documentary film Woodstock

Andrew Gentes

#3. People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

L'Wren Scott

#4. I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.

Steve Earle

#5. I wanted to be videotaped.

Mark David Chapman

#6. You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

Thomas A Kempis

#7. I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.

Kelli White

#8. I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

Franz Grillparzer

#9. I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

Carl Andre

#10. Chemistry was a terrible thing, sometimes it simply sparked between the wrong people

Natasha Anders

#11. In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

Aldous Huxley

#12. Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.

Michael Wadleigh

#13. The intensity with which Janis Joplin sings, you simply can't find a singer like that. It's almost scary the amount of emotion and energy and passion she puts into her performance.

Michael Wadleigh

#14. Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

Josh Hartnett

#15. I was with Tina Turner when she first saw Janis Joplin, and she said to Janis, 'Honey, you can't continue to sing like that, or you'll have no voice,' and Janis' response was just to laugh and take a swig on her Southern Comfort.

Michael Wadleigh

#16. A tiny company, 'the aware', we have taken up civilization's fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie.

Iwan Goll

#17. Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

Doris Lessing